Posted by Duncan on March 31, 2011 at 13:54:24 user Duncan.
In Reply to: Re: The LAKE posted by Elizabeth on March 31, 2011 at 10:31:49:
No, 'fraid not! I always thought the other way around really: that The Lake was essentially Windermere, but he brought bits of the Coniston of his childhood in. And there isn't really another lake to the west of Coniston - certainly not that they'd see. Of course, if they were walking somewhere up above the Claife Woods (a rather less wooded version than what we see today) the lake they could see to the west, with no boats on it is likely to have been Esthwaite Water.